The restaurant at Freedom Way and Walnut Street will open in April, leaving only one retail space left in the first phase at The Banks riverfront development.

Tony Cafeo, the restaurantís founder and owner, promises a place ďconducive to socializing, eating, dancing and partying.Ē Cafeo also owns restaurants Jefferson Hall at Newport on the Levee and the incoming Incline Public House in Price Hill.

Retail at The Banks already has brought more than 300 jobs and $600 million in investment to the region, according to developers Carter and The Dawson Company and equity partner USAA.

The first phase of The Banks includes 300 apartments, a parking facility, revised street grid and 96,000 square feet of retail. Once completed, The Banks is envisioned as Cincinnatiís largest single, mixed-use development of residential, office, hotel and retail components.